Kuchinoshima cattle
Kuchinoshima cattle in Higashiyama Zoo | |
| Conservation status | FAO (2007): critical-maintained |
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| Other names | Japanese: 口之島牛 Kuchinoshima ushi |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Distribution | Kuchinoshima Island, Yamaguchi |
| Use | meat |
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| Coat | variable |
| Horn status | horned in both sexes |
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The Kuchinoshima (Japanese: 口之島牛, Kuchinoshima ushi) is a critically-endangered Japanese breed of small feral cattle. It is found only on Kuchinoshima Island, in the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Japan. It is one of six native Japanese cattle breeds, and one of two small populations that have never been cross-bred with Western cattle, the other being the Mishima breed from Mishima Island north-west of Hagi, in Yamaguchi Prefecture.: 51